Category: <span>General d’Armee</span>

Society Meeting 11/04/2026

With all of the Society’s blog editors at Salute, Stephen steps up to the plate with a short report on the games played at the Society meeting last weekend.

At the club today we had four games. Since it was also the day of Salute, club meetings tend to have fewer attending due to the fact that some members will be at Salute. (Ed: See a report on the Salute trip and the Award received here).

First up, we have a game of FoG. This is a stalwart game of the club and at most meetings there will be a game on the go. The FoGgers got in two games. In the first one it was the Romans having a bust up with the Carthaginians and in the second it was those same Romans (they’re a chippy bunch, eh?) taking a pop at some Seleucids.

Dave and Pete had a game of General d’Armee – a Napoleonic game. I’m sure I was told it was Prussians and Bavarians, but I might have got it wrong. Dave is a keen Napoleonicist (is that a word? It is now) and there were loads of figures on the table.

Prussians or Bavarians? (Ed: Prussians I think)

Or Is Bavarians or Prussians (Ed: Bavarians this time)

Next up we have two Saga games.

John and Bob had a couple of games with Norse Gaels and Anglo-Saxons. I believe this was Bob’s first go with Saga and from what I heard he experienced the Norse Gaels’ shocking ability to dish out some damage.

Anglo Saxons Dreading The Inevitable Charge

Tony G and myself also had a game of Saga. Having recently read a book on William II I thought the rebellion of Bishop Odo in 1088 would make a good one-day campaign. So we played three linked games. The winner of each would decide who would be attacker and defender in the next scenario. The campaign winner would be the one who scored the most total Victory Points.

(Ed: The picture at the top of the post “Burn Tonbridge, Burn” is from this series of games).

Modesty prevents me from saying who won…

(Ed: I think we can guess Stephen! We should be back to the WIP Wednesday posts from next week.)

Society Meeting 28/03/2026

Andy presents a photo round up of this weekend’s games.

Peter M put on a multiplayer 25mm skirmish game set in the Indian Mutiny, 1857 ‘Don’t Lucknow’

No scenery in this game, the grey areas are roads and alleys, white are buildings.

Stephen & Andy started a Barons War mini campaign, “A Most Ignoble Feud.”

Colin & Paul ran a 2mm Strength & Honour game, Late Republican Roman vs Pontic

David P ran a 28mm GdA2 Napoleonics game, Saxons vs Prussians

Eric put on a Classic Battletech game.

That’s all for now.

Society Meeting 28/02/2026

A very delayed pictorial roundup of the last Society meeting of February 2026, due to some IT issues at one of the editors home.

David P ran a General d’Armee 2nd edition game of French vs Russians in 1813

Tony P ran a mixed scale FoG Ancients game (both scales use the same base sizes)

Eric ran another episode in his ongoing Shadow of the Dragon Queen D&D campaign, but sadly we have no photos.

A busy weekend, Society meeting 24th February and Cavalier 25th February

Andy rounds up a busy weekend for the Society. Photos by Andy unless stated otherwise, header photo by Stephen.

Last weekend saw both a Society meeting and our annual trip to the Cavalier Wargames show run by Tunbridge Wells Wargames Society.

Only three games at the meeting on Saturday, perhaps due to some members only being able to get out on one of the days.

First up, David ran a Napoleonic Corps game using General d’Armee rules and figures from his collection. This was a popular game with half a dozen members partaking.

Eric ran a Judge Dredd RPG, only a couple of photos of this one I’m afraid.

Finally on Saturday Andy and Stephen finished off their Lion Rampant Five Battles campaign, joined this time by Treasurer Mark and new member Charlotte.

Game one.

This was a Convoy mission, the Christians had to escort three “baggage” markers diagonally across the table, a cart, some monks and some civilians. The Muslim forces had to stop them.

Much reduced cavalry face off (Charlotte)

Game 2. This was to be our “Big Battle”, with two commands on each side. Here the objective was simply to defeat the opposition.

We will post a write up of the final games in the campaign in the near future.

CAVALIER

On Sunday half a dozen or so members travelled to Tonbridge for Cavalier.

The Society’s game for this year was masterminded and built by Phil, and was a 3D representation of a map game published in the 1977 Warlord Comic Summer Special portraying a Luftwaffe raid on Southern England during the Battle of Britain.

Phil’s board, 560 individually marked squares!

Airfields and ammunition dumps are three of the targets for the Luftwaffe

A copy of the original game can just be seen at the bottom of the photo

First Society meeting of the year

Andy rounds up the first meeting of the year.

A good turn out for the Society’s first meeting of 2024, which included the Annual General Meeting, as well as half a dozen games.

The games staged were representative of the many periods and genes covered at the Society, consisting of historical, fictional, fantasy and sci-fi games.

Tony and Phil made a start with their “Quest of the Ringbearer” Middle-Earth campaign, playing out 4 scenarios of the journey from the Shire to Mount Doom.

Scenario 1 Farmer Maggot’s Crop

Starting positions for scenario 1. The hobbits by their stash (giant tomato), Grip, Fang and Wolf by the kennel and Farmer Maggot asleep in his cottage.

One of the Hobbits fends off Fang while the others gather cabbages

Scenario 2 – Short cuts make long delays

Pippin gets left behind as Frodo and Sam head for Gildor Inglorion. The Nazgul blunder their way through the woods

Sam has three Nazgul to face, Pippin has fallen and Frodo is nowhere to be seen.

Scenario 3 – Buckleberry Ferry

Starting positions for Scenario three, Three Nazgul spread out near the ferry, the Hobbits are in the trees near the top of the picture.

Stalemate, the sole surviving Nazgul (with 5 points of Will left) has crossed the Brandywine tying the ferry on the far side of the river. The four Hobbits have taken some damage and can’t face swimming the river with a Nazgul waiting for them.

A more detailed report on these scenarios will appear in due course.

Stephen staged a 15mm American Civil War game using Brigade Fire & Fury, ‘The Battle of Mansfield April 1864’

Union fall back as the Confederates take the hill

Alan put on a Pulp Alley game “The Castle of Terror”, teams from the Intelligence Agencies of various countries have been dispatched to investigate secret German activity at Schloß Weidergänger.